Evidence of this reached the level of full satire in December of 2015 when filmmaker Ami Horowitz went on the campus of Yale University and asked stu… - Charlie Kirk

Two hundred years ago, 84% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today, 90% don’t. 83% didn’t have a basic education. Today, 86% do. 1% lived in a democracy. Today just 44% don’t. The child mortality rate was 43%. Today, it’s 4%.

The belief that the bad conditions are “inevitable” and unchangeable is a dangerous, self-fulfilling prophecy. We’d been told ISIS and the Paris Climate Agreement were inevitable — just as pre-Reagan America was told by Jimmy Carter that America needed to get over its “inordinate fear of communism” and accept the permanence of the Soviet Union. But these things aren’t unchangeable. Believing that they are beatable can help make them so. One must dare to believe greatness can come again.

Republican senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa put it well in the New York Times when he wrote, “Over the past few months alone, the Defense Department has had to explain why it’s been paying $14,000 for individual 3-D-printed toilet seat lids and purchasing cups for $1,280 each. These are just the latest examples on a long list of unacceptable purchases made by the department, including $436 for hammers in the 1980s, and $117 soap dish covers and $999 pliers in the 1990s.